Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all of the time.
Every artist was first an amateur.
I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it-as long as you really believe 100 percent.
Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.